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Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months

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During today's earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2026, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the Mac mini and Mac Studio could be hard to get for months to come.

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"We think, looking forward, that the ‌Mac mini‌ and ‌Mac Studio‌ may take several months to reach supply demand balance," Cook said.

Apple underestimated demand for the ‌Mac mini‌ and the ‌Mac Studio‌. "Both of these are amazing platforms for AI and agentic tools and the customer recognition of that is happening faster than what we had predicted, and so we saw higher than expected demand," Cook said.

Shipping delays for the ‌Mac mini‌ and the ‌Mac Studio‌ have been increasing over the last few months, and the waits for some models stretch into months. Apple stopped selling the ‌Mac Studio‌ with 512GB RAM entirely, and it stopped accepting orders for some models with higher amounts of RAM. As of last week, the base ‌Mac mini‌ was listed as "Currently Unavailable" from Apple's online store because it is out of stock.

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JPack Avatar
JPack
48 minutes ago at 03:13 pm
This is the key answer in the call: "The primary constraint in the March and June quarter is the availability of the advanced nodes our SOCs are produced on, not memory."
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klasma
18 minutes ago at 03:42 pm

Meaning they will miss out on sales.
They can’t sell what they can’t source.
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CarAnalogy
21 minutes ago at 03:39 pm

I'm saying keep your wits about you if picking up refurbs at the store. Be aware of your surroundings as you leave.

To be fair, this is always good advice.
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apple4everOG
25 minutes ago at 03:35 pm
Mannnn I was waiting for the M5 Studio... sounds like I'll be waiting longer.
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chars1ub0w
34 minutes ago at 03:26 pm

Meaning they will miss out on sales.
It's not high priority. Minis + Studios are probably a tiny fraction of Apple's revenue. Priority is always going to be SOC and SSD for iPhones, the red bits below, which constitute the lion's share of hardware sales for Apple.


Apple has to have a successful launch for the iPhone 18 and Ultra series. They have to convince people and have them itching to upgrade their phones. Assuming a non-saturated market, and people don't skip this new generation, they can generate huge demand with big upgrades and have plenty of supply on hand.

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CWallace
44 minutes ago at 03:17 pm

This is the key answer in the call: "The primary constraint in the March and June quarter is the availability of the advanced nodes our SOCs are produced on, not memory."
Reports say that Apple has been buying up significant stocks of memory, paying well above market prices to secure supply. So it makes sense that the limit would be not being able to get enough wafers to produce sufficient number of the higher-end M5 SoCs due to other companies paying a premium to TSMC to secure first-access to said wafers.
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